Indexed some mounts for Fred Mullet stamp dies that Arlene had and wants to use for gel plate printing Fixed three Speedball linoleum tool handles and learned that their collets are really pretty simple There was a broken blade jammed inside this Speedball linoleum tool handle that I wasn’t able to get out until I …
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More stamp indexing
I didn’t really do much today, or, not much besides practicing piano — a few measures of the second strain of “The Entertainer”, which have been very rough when I play through the whole piece. I need to get the fingering right so the whole section is smoother and I get all the harmony in …
Mostly making stamps
We got two stamp orders yesterday. That was once a frequent occurrence, but the art stamp industry has almost vanished in the last several years and particularly this year, when no crafts fairs have been going on. At any rate, Arlene and I had to do some stamp making. We had received an order of …
Emerging from the Pandemic Year
Yesterday, March 15, 2021, was two weeks after my second dose of COVID-19 vaccine (the Pfizer one, so it was three weeks after the first one, which was February 8). That means I had two weeks after the second one for my immune system to do as much as it was going to (or at …